Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Turkey to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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