Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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