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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
elearning enable
students
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bulgaria to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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