MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
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.
MOOC classes are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are several
topics that
blended learning organizations
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Corporations want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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