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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
learners
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These massive open courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Macedonia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Students want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
details
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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