Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Public servants want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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