Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education enable students all around the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Utah to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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