Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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