Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students 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 a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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