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 this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are many
subjects that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Estonia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
necessity
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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