Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are normally 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 a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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