Find out more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are generally free for learners 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 lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Pakistan to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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