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 this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advancements in
digital education technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOCs are
commonly 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 many
issues that
online learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Everybody wants
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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