Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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