Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in digital education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are considering now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Arizona State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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