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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
elearning technology make it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take online classes.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also explores 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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