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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOC classes are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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