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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
learning technology make it possible for
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can institutions
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Guam to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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