Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are 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 a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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