Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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