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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advancements in
elearning technology enable
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can organizations
be assured that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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