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 this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
topics
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
blended learning technology have enabled
humans
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
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