Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online learning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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