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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also considers 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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