Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free 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 numerous topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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