Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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