Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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