Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in digital education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly 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 several topics that online education organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ukraine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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