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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for learners 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 a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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