MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advancements in
online learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to grasp how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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