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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
addresses
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
online education technology are making it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
blended learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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