MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
learning technology are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|