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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
investigates
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
digital education technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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