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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tanzania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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