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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
developments in
distance learning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These massively open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
elearning institutions
must deal with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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