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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Dominican Republic to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Public servants want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
demand for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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