MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
digital education technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes online.
These MOOC courses are
typically free
for students 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
topics that
online education institutions
have to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
manage
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Trainers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
desideratum for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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