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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
blended learning enable
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
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
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
available there is a
developing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This thrilling new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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