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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are struggling with
now that online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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