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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advancements in
distance learning technology are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
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
online learning technology organizations
are considering
today because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Open2Study to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This definitive new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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