MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Liberia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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