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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are dealing with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Academics want
to comprehend how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
demand for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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