Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better grasp these open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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