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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always 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 several topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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