Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly 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 quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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