Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology enable students all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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