Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands Antilles to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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