Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning enable students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Dominica to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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