MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
e-learning make it possible for
students
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
are dealing with
now that elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This exciting new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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