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.
Find out more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
online education technology are providing the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Babson College to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
initiatives.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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