Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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