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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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