MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online learning technology enable
students
all around the world
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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