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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Macau to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
these
open educational
endeavours.
Scholars want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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