Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently 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 several topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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