Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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