Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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