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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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