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
edited collection
which
describes
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
distance learning enable
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can organizations
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Croatia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desire
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
need for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
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