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 the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
distance learning technology have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online learning technology institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
open educational
experiments.
Students want
to understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desire for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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