Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning enable learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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