MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
distance learning technology have empowered
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning organizations
have to deal with
today because blended learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can institutions
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can educators
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to be aware of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This thrilling new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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