Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners 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 a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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