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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
distance learning have provided the means for
learners
in nations all aver the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desire
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
demand for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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