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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for learners 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational ventures. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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