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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
have to consider
today because online education technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This thrilling new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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