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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
online education have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in online classes.
MOOCs are
generally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Houston System to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This thrilling new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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