Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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