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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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