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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
electronic educational technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
get a handle on
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This thrilling new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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