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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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