Find out more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also researches the most important 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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