Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually 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 a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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