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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
electronic educational technology enable
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
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
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
need for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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