Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners 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 a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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