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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly 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 several issues that elearning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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