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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to take part in classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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