Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education ventures. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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