Find out more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently 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 learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Martinique to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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