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 the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
studies
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
changes in
elearning technology have empowered
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Scientists want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
need for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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