Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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