Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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