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.
Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
changes in
online education have made it possible for
students
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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