Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free 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 online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better grasp these fascinating new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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