Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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