MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
electronic educational technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
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 a lot of
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Educators want
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
need for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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