Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, South to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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