Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to understand these open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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