Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to understand these exciting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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