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
book
which
addresses
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
online education are making it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs.
How can participants
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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