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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
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.
There are many
topics that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
today because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Norfolk Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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