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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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