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.
Find out more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advancements in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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