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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
evolvements in
digital education technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can educators
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Duke University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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