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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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