Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are making it possible for students in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Aland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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