MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
online education technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Johnston Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
demand for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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