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 the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
e-learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
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