Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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