MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
e-learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massively open online courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
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 stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
these
important new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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