Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the major 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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