Find out more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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