Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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