Learn more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly 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 topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational Book