Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning technology make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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