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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
blended learning are enabling
students
all around the world
to take part in online classes.
MOOC courses are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Malta to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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