Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling humans all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC 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 organizations like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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