Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online learning have enabled learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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