Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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