Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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