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 the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
electronic educational technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive 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 lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Twitter to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
desire for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This sensational new book
also analyzes the
most important 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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