Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are mostly 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 variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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