Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are usually free 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 numerous issues that online learning organizations are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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