Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 a variety of topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Ecuador to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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