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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in blended learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 numerous topics that online education organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Reunion to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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