Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education have empowered learners all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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