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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
be assured that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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