Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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