Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Professors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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