Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in e-learning have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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