Learn more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education technology make it possible for humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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