Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are normally 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 quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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