Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners 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 a variety of issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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