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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
elearning technology are enabling
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are many
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Teachers want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This sensational new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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