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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
developments in
distance learning technology are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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