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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning enable students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are 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 quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the major 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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