Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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