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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
electronic education technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to consider
now that online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
France to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This thrilling new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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