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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in blended learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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