Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are usually 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 a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Moocs Education