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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
elearning technology have empowered
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are considering
today because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scholars
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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