Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are typically 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 topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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