Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to understand these important new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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