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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
online education are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
These massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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