Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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