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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
e-learning enable
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive online courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
demand
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Instructors want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
demand for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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