Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology make it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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