Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always 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 numerous issues that elearning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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