Find out more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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