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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
online education technology are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses 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.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to consider
now that technology-enhanced learning is
developing so quickly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Montenegro to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
demand for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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