Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly 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 several topics that learning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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