Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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