MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
changes in
online education have made it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can we
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can participants
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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