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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better understand these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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