MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
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.
MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because blended learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desideratum for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This inspiring new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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