Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education are empowering humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Puerto Rico to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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