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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
e-learning enable
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These massive online courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are struggling with
today because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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