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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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