MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
distance learning technology have empowered
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Bellevue University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open educational
ventures.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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