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 Around the World is a
book
which
studies
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
elearning technology have empowered
learners
all over the world
to take part in online classes.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Suriname to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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