Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education are enabling learners all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students 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 a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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