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 the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
gains in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOCs are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are many
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can participants
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
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