Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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