MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes online.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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