Find out more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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