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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
distance learning are making it possible for
learners
all over the world
to take part in online classes.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
desire for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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