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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in learning technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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