Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free but do not 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 quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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