Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly 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 quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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