Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online learning make it possible for humans all over the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not 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 organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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