MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
blended learning technology are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open educational
initiatives.
Scholars want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To respond to this
need for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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