Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in elearning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Utah State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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