Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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