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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
distance learning technology make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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