Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically 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 a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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