Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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