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.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
developments in
technology-enhanced learning enable
people
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This amazing new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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