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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
gains in
electronic education technology are enabling
students
all over the world
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to consider
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Romania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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