Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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