Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that elearning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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