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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology enable
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to consider
now that learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Academics want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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