Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students 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 topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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