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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
demand for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This amazing new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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