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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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