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 is a
book
that
studies
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
distance learning are making it possible for
humans
all over the world
to take courses online.
These MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
always
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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
France to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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