Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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