Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily 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 issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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