Find out more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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