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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in elearning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students 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 quite a few topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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