Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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