Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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