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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. MOOCs are normally 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 a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand these new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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