Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are mostly free 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 a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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