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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
distance learning enable
people
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
McHenry County College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
demand
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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