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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
changes in
elearning technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to consider
today because learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
abundant there is a
demand
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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