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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning enable students all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are almost always 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 several issues that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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