Find out more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are typically 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 a variety of topics that online learning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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