Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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