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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are having to consider
now that elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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