Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online education have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are 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 quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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