MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
changes in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Chile to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
compelling new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to perceive how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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