Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC 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 optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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