Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for students 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 quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also articulates 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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