Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning technology are empowering humans all around the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Utah to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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