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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are generally free 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 variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Emory University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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