Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are empowering learners in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOC Online Courses