Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants need to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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