Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning make it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand these open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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