Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education are enabling learners all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education initiatives. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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