Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning have empowered people all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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