MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
e-learning technology make it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
have to consider
now that learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Bellevue University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
need
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
these
open education
experiments.
People want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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