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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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