Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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