Learn more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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