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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
manage
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
demand for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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