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 the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
technology-enhanced learning enable
students
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Wellesley College to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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