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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
electronic education technology have empowered
learners
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
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 many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Brunei to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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