Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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