MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are considering
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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