MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
learners
all around the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOCs are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Mali to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
People want
to know how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This dramatic new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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