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 the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
researches
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
online education technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canada to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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