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 Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
electronic education technology make it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This amazing new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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