Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates 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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