MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
distance learning have made it possible for
learners
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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