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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advances in
online education enable
humans
all over the world
to take courses online.
These massive open courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
must deal with
now that blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Macedonia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
need for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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