Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology make it possible for humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes 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 a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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