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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
distance learning have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
fascinating new open educational
initiatives.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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