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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
evolvements in
online education are making it possible for
learners
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
these
open educational
undertakings.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This amazing new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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