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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
online education are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
certify that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Students want
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This gripping new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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