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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are 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 a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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