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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are 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 many topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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