Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly 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 several issues that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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