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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are many
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to consider
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Poland to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better grasp
these
important new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
need for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This exciting new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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