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 impressive 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
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
e-learning are empowering
humans
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
MOOCs 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 many
topics that
blended learning organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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