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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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