Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the 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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