Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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