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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
researches
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
electronic educational technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
elearning technology institutions
are dealing with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Pakistan to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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