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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
electronic educational technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
necessity
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
need for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and OERS.
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