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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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