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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
have to consider
today because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
endeavours.
Instructors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This dramatic new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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