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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
blended learning are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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