Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education enable learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners 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 a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Navassa Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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