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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic educational technology enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of South Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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