Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online education technology enable students all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to be more aware of these open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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