Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic educational technology enable learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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