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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily 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 several topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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