Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are commonly free 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 numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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