Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are generally 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 several issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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