Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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