Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Dominica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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