Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, North to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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