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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to massive open online courses (MOOC) and open educational resources (OERs). As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. New gains in online learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates? How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? These online MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation.

There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education undertakings. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the historical trends associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). For more details please visit this MOOC book site.

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