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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
online learning have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to be aware of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education topics.
This exciting new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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