Find out more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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