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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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