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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
electronic educational technology have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
MOOC classes are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Anguilla to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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