Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free 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 numerous issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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