Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners 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 issues that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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