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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
must deal with
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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