Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online 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 quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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