Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are 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 elearning organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Mexico to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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