Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the most important 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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