Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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