Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning are making it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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