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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open 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 several issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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