MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
developments in
learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As digital educational technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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