Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology make it possible for students all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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