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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are free for learners 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 numerous issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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