Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are normally 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 quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to consider today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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