MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
online education technology are empowering
students
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
must deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Montserrat to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
open education
experiments.
Educators want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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