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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners 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 lot of
subjects that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Peninsula College to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Teachers want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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