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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
online education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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