Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in online education technology enable students all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students 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 several issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Monaco to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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