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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
researches
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
online education have empowered
students
all over the world
to take courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Baker Island to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open educational
initiatives.
Universities want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education topics.
This amazing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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