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 this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
studies
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
blended learning are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
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.
There are several
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
assure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
desire for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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