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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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