Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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