MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
digital education technology have empowered
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are numerous
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
necessity
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
important new open educational
initiatives.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
desire for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This sensational new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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