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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently 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 many subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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