Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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