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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
developments in
electronic educational technology are empowering
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
need
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to know how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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