Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are customarily 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 topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational ventures. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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