Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews 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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