Find out more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in learning technology enable learners all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free 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 numerous issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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