Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online learning enable learners in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Algeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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