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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
elearning technology enable
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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