Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology are enabling students all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes 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 distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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