Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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