Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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