Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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