Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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