Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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