Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open education undertakings. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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