Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in electronic educational technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are considering today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to understand these new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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