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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning are making it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Bellevue University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
undertakings.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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