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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
online education are providing the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
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.
These massive open courses are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can participants
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
information
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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