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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are commonly free but do not 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 learning technology organizations are considering now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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