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.
Learn more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
These MOOC classes are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
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 teachers
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
Universities want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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