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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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