Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like El Salvador to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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