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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
online education technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning institutions
are considering
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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