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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly 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. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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