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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning make it possible for people all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are usually 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 many issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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