MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology are enabling
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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