Find out more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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