Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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