Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically 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 quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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