Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are typically 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 topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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