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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education technology have made it possible for
humans
all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are a variety of
subjects that
elearning organizations
are dealing with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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