Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are considering today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like San Marino to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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