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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
evolvements in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
topics that
blended learning institutions
must deal with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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