Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational ventures. Academics want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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