Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are commonly free 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 numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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