Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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