Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students 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 several issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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