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 exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology have made it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Nauru to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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