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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
e-learning are empowering
students
in nations all around the world
to participate 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
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Michigan State University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Professors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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