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.
Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These MOOC classes are
generally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
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
massive open online courses is
good?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
need for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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