MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
students
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
have to consider
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This exciting new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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