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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are generally free 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 issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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