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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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