Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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