Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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