Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also researches the 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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