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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
distance learning are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to take courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Facebook to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
open education
experiments.
Universities want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|