Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are usually 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 numerous subjects that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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