Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. Massively open online 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 quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to better understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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