Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Students want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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