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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advancements in
e-learning are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To meet this
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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