MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are many
topics that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
now that elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Russia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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