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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
online education technology have enabled
students
in nations all aver the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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