Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually 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 many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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