Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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