MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
learning technology are making it possible for
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students 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 variety of
topics that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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