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 this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
learning technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to consider
today because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
growing
demand for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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