Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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