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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education technology are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally 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 several issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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