Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free 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 numerous topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

E-Learning