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 the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
studies
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are a variety of
topics that
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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