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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
elearning are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
iversity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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