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.
Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
blended learning enable
humans
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are several
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
People want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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