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 the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can students
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|