Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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