Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in electronic education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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