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.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
learning technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desire
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
need for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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