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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in blended learning have empowered learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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