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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are struggling with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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