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 this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
online learning are enabling
people
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open courses are
typically free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to consider
now that distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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