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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
digital education technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Montserrat to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Academics want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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