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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
developments in
online education make it possible for
humans
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education organizations
are dealing with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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