MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
researches
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
e-learning technology enable
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
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
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
One Month to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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