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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
need for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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