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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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