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 the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
electronic education technology are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
demand for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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