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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
e-learning are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This exciting new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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