Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly 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 many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Uruguay to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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