MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
evolvements in
online learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
today because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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