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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
online learning enable
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
certify that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Northern Cyprus to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
need for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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