Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in blended learning are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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