Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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