Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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