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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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