MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
online learning are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to consider
now that online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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