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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
explores
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
e-learning technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are dealing with
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open educational
endeavours.
Researchers want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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