MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
electronic education technology have empowered
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students 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 numerous
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desire
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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