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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning are making it possible for learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are commonly 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 numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ethiopia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational Practices