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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can learners
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
these
important new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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