Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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