Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Uruguay to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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