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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually free for students 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 a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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