Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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