Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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