Find out more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free 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 variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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