Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. 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. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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