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.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
e-learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
MOOC courses are
almost always 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 quite a few
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
France to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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