MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
blended learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
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