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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
e-learning technology make it possible for
learners
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
today because learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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