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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online learning have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently 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 many issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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