Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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