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 this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
blended learning have made it possible for
learners
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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