MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online education technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because blended learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Germany to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
need for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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