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.
Learn more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
electronic education technology are enabling
humans
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
endeavours.
Trainers want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This exciting new book
also reviews the
key 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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