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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always 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 many topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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