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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free 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 a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Howland Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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