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 is a
edited collection
that
describes
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
elearning enable
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Niger to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to be aware of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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