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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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