MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
electronic education technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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