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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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