Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free 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 numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Davidson College to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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