Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning are empowering learners all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always 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 issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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