Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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