Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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