MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advancements in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to attend to
today because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
these
new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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