Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. 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. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also reviews 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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