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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
e-learning are empowering
learners
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are having to consider
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Tristan da Cunha to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
endeavours.
Educators want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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