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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advancements in
online education have made it possible for
humans
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
generally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This sensational new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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