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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Berklee College of Music to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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