Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Hong Kong to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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