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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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