Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always 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 several issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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