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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in blended learning have enabled learners all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners 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 many issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bangladesh to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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