Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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