Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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