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.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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