Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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