Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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