MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
changes in
online learning technology enable
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
widespread there is a
desire
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This amazing new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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