MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
blended learning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
need for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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