MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
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 Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
digital education technology have made it possible for
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Elidaemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Corporations want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
key 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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