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 the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
distance learning technology have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These massively open online courses are
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 several
issues that
blended learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Maldives to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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