MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
elearning technology enable
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to deal with
now that learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
these
compelling new open education
ventures.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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