Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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