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.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
gains in
online education are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are dealing with
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
desire for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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