Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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