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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
learning technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can we
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
need
to comprehend how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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