Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology enable students all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to understand these promising new open education undertakings. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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