Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education have enabled people all over the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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