Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free 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 a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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