Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education are providing the means for learners all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines 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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