MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
online education are providing the means for
students
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
e-learning organizations
are dealing with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Corporations want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
desire for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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