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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massively open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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