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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Korea, North to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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