Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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