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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
elearning are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in online classes.
These massive open courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This gripping new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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