Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these important new open education ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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