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.
Find out more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
researches
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
must deal with
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guinea to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This sensational new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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