Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning make it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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