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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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