MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
elearning enable
people
in nations all aver the world
to take 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.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
topics that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
want
to better perceive
these
interesting new open education
undertakings.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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