MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
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