Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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