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 is a
book
which
studies
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
gains in
online education have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can learners
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
these
new open educational
ventures.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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