Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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