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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
researches
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
electronic education technology enable
learners
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can participants
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This sensational new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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