Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in digital education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are usually free for learners 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 issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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