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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC classes are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Swaziland to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This stimulating new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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