Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for students all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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