Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are generally free for learners 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 issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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