Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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