MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
online education have empowered
people
all around the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
these
new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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