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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
blended learning have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning institutions
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
ensure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to be aware of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
these
compelling new open education
endeavours.
Instructors want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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