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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
blended learning technology are enabling
learners
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
These massive online courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Venezuela to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
need for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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