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.
Learn more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
elearning technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
certify that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
need
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Everyone wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
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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