MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology make it possible for
humans
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
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 several
issues that
elearning technology organizations
have to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Educators want
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
need for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This sensational new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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