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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
researches
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
changes in
elearning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scientists
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to grasp how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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