MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
evolvements in
technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for
learners
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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