Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners 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 e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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