Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in e-learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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