Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in blended learning enable students all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open education ventures. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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