MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
e-learning have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
must deal with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guadeloupe to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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