MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
e-learning have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
would like
to understand
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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