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
book
that
addresses
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
developments in
online learning technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Students want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
demand for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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