Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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