Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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