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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
online learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
e-learning institutions
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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