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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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