Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently 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 elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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