Find out more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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