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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
online education technology have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning institutions
are dealing with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Argentina to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This exciting new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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