MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
elearning have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
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 a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to consider
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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