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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
subjects
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
improvements in
online education technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
growing
need for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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