Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are enabling students in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students 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 numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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