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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students 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.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are considering
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Aland to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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