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 is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC classes are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology organizations
must deal with
now that online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Netherlands to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
demand for
details
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This dramatic new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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