MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
talks about
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
blended learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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