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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have enabled students all around the world to participate in online classes. These 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 topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to understand these important new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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