MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
blended learning have enabled
humans
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners 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 many
topics that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
El Salvador to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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