MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online learning are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive online courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Tunisia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Academics want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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