Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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