Learn more about the impressive new 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 online education have empowered learners all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Norway to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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