Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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