MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
e-learning technology enable
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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