Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently 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 many issues that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to understand these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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