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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
distance learning enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
These MOOCs are
typically free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
open educational
experiments.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
desire for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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