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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily 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 variety of topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Venezuela to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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