Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning have made it possible for humans all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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