Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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