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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in elearning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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