MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
improvements in
online education technology enable
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning organizations
are considering
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Midway Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Students want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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