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 this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
evolvements in
online learning have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to consider
today because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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