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
which
articulates
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
blended learning have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Broward College to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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