MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
online education have enabled
learners
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
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 numerous
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
today because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
One Month to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
undertakings.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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