Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning enable learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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