Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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