Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Helena to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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