Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. 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. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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