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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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