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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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