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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning enable humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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