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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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