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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
online learning technology are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning institutions
are dealing with
more than ever because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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