Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not 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 a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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