Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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