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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning technology make it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online education technology is
improving so quickly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can students
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
need
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
need for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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