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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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