Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education enable learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also studies 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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