Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Burundi to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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