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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
elearning technology have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
open education
ventures.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This dramatic new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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