Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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