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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online classes.
These massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can institutions
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
Universities want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also discusses 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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