Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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