Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning have enabled learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students 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 topics that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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