Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in online learning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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