Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in digital education technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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