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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
elearning enable
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are many
issues that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
new open educational
initiatives.
Scientists want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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