Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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