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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free for students 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 organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these open education ventures. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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