Learn more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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