MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
elearning have made it possible for
students
all over the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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