Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in elearning have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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