MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in classes online.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better grasp
these
new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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