Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not 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 technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Kiribati to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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