Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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