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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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