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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
elearning make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
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 lot of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
demand for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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