Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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