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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online education technology are empowering humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are 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 a variety of subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to be more aware of these open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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