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 the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
elearning are providing the means for
learners
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
France to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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