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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
elearning are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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