Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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