Find out more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently 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 e-learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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